Airline students help the community

The student council recently presented a check for $3,500 to Katy Watkins’ parents and the Fuller Center to go toward building a third house on Katy’s Corner.(Photo: <137,2014/10/07,Widner/c Barbara1>Submitted by Sonja Bailes<137>)

It has been eight years since Airline High School junior Katy Watkins and two other classmates were killed in an automobile accident on their way to a Vikings football game.

Two houses have been built in Bossier at the corner of Youree and Nina for veterans through the Katy Build project, an arm of the Fuller Center for Housing of Northwest Louisiana and Asbury United Methodist Church.

During a recent Airline pep rally, the student council presented a check for $3,500 to Watkins’ parents and the Fuller Center to go toward building a third house on Katy’s Corner. Not only did students raise the money, but there are also plans for them to help build the next house in memory of their fellow Vikings.

At Airline’s homecoming game, students donated more than 1,600 paper good items to the Rutherford House in memory of Eliot Knowles, the executive director of the Rutherford House and long time voice of the Vikings football games.

This was Airline’s way of embracing “Helping Hearts: The Power of We,” which is Bossier Schools’ districtwide community service initiative.

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